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UNDERSTANDING THE MYTH: WHY CASSANDRA MUST NOT BE SILENCED Rolf posted: 2013-09-24 17:39:16. The power of the myth, will empower us if we can truly listen to the story. As a yoga instructor I have always identified with the Cassandra myth in terms of presenting a non-violent vision of humanity embracing each other, all life, and the environment on our planet, mother earth. IN A WORD: THE TRUE HISTORY OF "MISOGYNY" BY CHRISTINE E The tract that precipitated the introduction of "misogyny" to the language was Joseph Swetnam's 1615 attack on women, colorfully titled The Arraignment of Lewde, idle, froward, and unconstant women: Or, the vanitie of them, choose you whether. Swetnam minces no words in his tirade against women. Chapter 1, "Moses describeth a woman thus: 'At STOP MURDER AND VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERS BY MELISSA In a study conducted by the Sex Workers Project in New York City in 2003, 80 percent of the 30 street-based sex workers we interviewed reported experiencing violence or threats of violence while working. When sex workers do experience violence, they must weigh their need for protection against the risks of reporting to the police. OPINION: YOUR VOTE GOT COUNTED. HERE’S WHY BY SHEILA PARKS Sheila Parks, Ed.D. is the founder of the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots and the author of WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME: The Perils of Electronic Voting Machines and Democracy's Solution: Publicly Observed, Secure Hand-Counted Paper Ballots (HCPB) Elections. A POEM: PRAISE TO OUR MOTHERS BY GCINA MHLOPHE Praise to Our Mothers. By Gcina Mhlophe. (South Africa, 1989) If the moon were to shine tonight. To light up my face and show off my proud form. With beads around my neck and shells in my hair. And soft easy flowing dress with the colours of Africa. If I were to stand on top of a hill. And raise my voice in praise. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1994: IS THE PIANO A Rebecca Shugrue is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston studying the role of women in politics.. Carolyn Gage is a lesbian playright and screenwriter based in ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1994: LOUISE BOURGEOIS Louise Bourgeois' Feminist Artby Arlene Raven. The powerful art of Louise Bourgeois falls between categories - when male thinking dominates the category-making. Louise Bourgeois is definitely not history. At 83, she is still hungry, angry, and wildly creative. Bourgeois' current surge of artistic power is atypical for an octogenarian artist. ME, BABE AND PRYING OPEN THE LESBIAN CLOSETS OF WOMEN by Carolyn Gage. June 28, 2012. As a playwright attempting to reclaim the lesbian lives of historic women athletes like Babe Didrikson Zaharias, I run into a peculiar brand of homophobia. Writing about women athletes is a joy. Women athletes defy expectations and societal norms. They run their own races. They inspire and they revolutionize. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1990: OUT OF THE CLOSET AND Should gay politicians and celebrities be forced to "come out?" GABRIEl ROTELLO: Prior to the Stonewall RebBllion in 1969, homosexuality was rarely mentioned in the press.The characterization of gay sexuality as "the love that dare not speak its name" was one of society's most powerful tools in the suppression of gays and lesbians. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1997: TARA AND OTHER LIES MARGARET MITCHELL, author of Gone With the Wind, was a battered wife. She kept her first marriage a secret from the press, because the court records for the divorce contained a harrowing account of her husband's attempted rape of her. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1994: THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgery (Caesarean section is the most common) performed in the United States today. An American woman is five times more likely than a European to have a hysterectomy before the age of 44. In fact, 35 is the average age for the surgery in the U.S. IN A WORD: THE TRUE HISTORY OF "MISOGYNY" BY CHRISTINE E The tract that precipitated the introduction of "misogyny" to the language was Joseph Swetnam's 1615 attack on women, colorfully titled The Arraignment of Lewde, idle, froward, and unconstant women: Or, the vanitie of them, choose you whether. Swetnam minces no words in his tirade against women. Chapter 1, "Moses describeth a woman thus: 'At STOP MURDER AND VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERS BY MELISSA In a study conducted by the Sex Workers Project in New York City in 2003, 80 percent of the 30 street-based sex workers we interviewed reported experiencing violence or threats of violence while working. When sex workers do experience violence, they must weigh their need for protection against the risks of reporting to the police. OPINION: YOUR VOTE GOT COUNTED. HERE’S WHY BY SHEILA PARKS Sheila Parks, Ed.D. is the founder of the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots and the author of WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME: The Perils of Electronic Voting Machines and Democracy's Solution: Publicly Observed, Secure Hand-Counted Paper Ballots (HCPB) Elections. A POEM: PRAISE TO OUR MOTHERS BY GCINA MHLOPHE Praise to Our Mothers. By Gcina Mhlophe. (South Africa, 1989) If the moon were to shine tonight. To light up my face and show off my proud form. With beads around my neck and shells in my hair. And soft easy flowing dress with the colours of Africa. If I were to stand on top of a hill. And raise my voice in praise. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1994: IS THE PIANO A Rebecca Shugrue is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston studying the role of women in politics.. Carolyn Gage is a lesbian playright and screenwriter based in ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1994: LOUISE BOURGEOIS Louise Bourgeois' Feminist Artby Arlene Raven. The powerful art of Louise Bourgeois falls between categories - when male thinking dominates the category-making. Louise Bourgeois is definitely not history. At 83, she is still hungry, angry, and wildly creative. Bourgeois' current surge of artistic power is atypical for an octogenarian artist. ME, BABE AND PRYING OPEN THE LESBIAN CLOSETS OF WOMEN by Carolyn Gage. June 28, 2012. As a playwright attempting to reclaim the lesbian lives of historic women athletes like Babe Didrikson Zaharias, I run into a peculiar brand of homophobia. Writing about women athletes is a joy. Women athletes defy expectations and societal norms. They run their own races. They inspire and they revolutionize. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1990: OUT OF THE CLOSET AND Should gay politicians and celebrities be forced to "come out?" GABRIEl ROTELLO: Prior to the Stonewall RebBllion in 1969, homosexuality was rarely mentioned in the press.The characterization of gay sexuality as "the love that dare not speak its name" was one of society's most powerful tools in the suppression of gays and lesbians. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1997: TARA AND OTHER LIES MARGARET MITCHELL, author of Gone With the Wind, was a battered wife. She kept her first marriage a secret from the press, because the court records for the divorce contained a harrowing account of her husband's attempted rape of her. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1994: THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgery (Caesarean section is the most common) performed in the United States today. An American woman is five times more likely than a European to have a hysterectomy before the age of 44. In fact, 35 is the average age for the surgery in the U.S. A POEM: PRAISE TO OUR MOTHERS BY GCINA MHLOPHE Praise to Our Mothers. By Gcina Mhlophe. (South Africa, 1989) If the moon were to shine tonight. To light up my face and show off my proud form. With beads around my neck and shells in my hair. And soft easy flowing dress with the colours of Africa. If I were to stand on top of a hill. And raise my voice in praise. OPINION: YOUR VOTE GOT COUNTED. HERE’S WHY BY SHEILA PARKS Sheila Parks, Ed.D. is the founder of the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots and the author of WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME: The Perils of Electronic Voting Machines and Democracy's Solution: Publicly Observed, Secure Hand-Counted Paper Ballots (HCPB) Elections. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1995: TRAGEDY, AMERICAN Then, fearing for the safety of her sons and in an act of vengeful honor and radical insurrection, she slays them with her own hands and escapes with their bodies to safe exile in a chariot drawn by dragons. Queen, goddess, sorceress, and then mother, Medea denies ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: WINTER 1996: WHAT IS JUSTICE FOR A Editor-at-Large Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., is the author of eight books, including Women and Madness, Mothers on Trial, and the recently published Patriarchy: Notes of an Expert Witness.. Artwork (cover, winter 1995 issue): Anke Feuchtenberger. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE THE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN'S MAGAZINE Consciousness-raising was birthed as a mass-organizing tool for the liberation of women in 1968 when the country and the world were seething with freedom movements. The women who started the Women’s Liberation Movement, several of whom had experienced the Southern Civil Rights Movement firsthand, were convinced it would take a similar mass movement that went beyond lobbying for legal reforms ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1997: RWANDA: JUSTICE DENIED Rwanda: JUSTICE DENIEDby Jan Goodwin. Amid the atrocities endured by Rwandan women, the world's silence may be the worst crime of all. February 1997: The heat, the fear and the sour smell of sweat that they triggered hung heavy in the stale air of the courtroom. Every window had been bricked over because of the security risk. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1997: TARA AND OTHER LIES MARGARET MITCHELL, author of Gone With the Wind, was a battered wife. She kept her first marriage a secret from the press, because the court records for the divorce contained a harrowing account of her husband's attempted rape of her. ON THE ISSUES CAFÉ: MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD. "How you dress shouldn't be cause for arrest" By Penelope Saunders. In late 2004 and early 2005, the Mayor of Washington, D.C. proposed several new laws to augment the city’s already stringent anti-prostitution policies. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1997: CASTING STONES: THE During the 1996 national U.S. elections, the news media had some ironic fun at Dick Morris' expense, commenting that the Presidential advisor and architect of family values got caught with them around his ankles. If we think his relationship with a prostitute violates patriarchal family values, however, we would be wrong for much ofChristian history.
UNDERSTANDING THE MYTH: WHY CASSANDRA MUST NOT BE SILENCED Rolf posted: 2013-09-24 17:39:16. The power of the myth, will empower us if we can truly listen to the story. As a yoga instructor I have always identified with the Cassandra myth in terms of presenting a non-violent vision of humanity embracing each other, all life, and the environment on our planet, mother earth. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE THE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN'S MAGAZINE The tragedy of Savita Halappanaver who died on Oct. 28, 2012 after being denied an abortion in a hospital in Ireland reminds us that all women suffer from circumstances that cross national boundaries, from social and religious conventions, outmoded ideas and societal norms, united by "just" being female. IN A WORD: THE TRUE HISTORY OF "MISOGYNY" BY CHRISTINE E The tract that precipitated the introduction of "misogyny" to the language was Joseph Swetnam's 1615 attack on women, colorfully titled The Arraignment of Lewde, idle, froward, and unconstant women: Or, the vanitie of them, choose you whether. Swetnam minces no words in his tirade against women. Chapter 1, "Moses describeth a woman thus: 'At OPINION: YOUR VOTE GOT COUNTED. HERE’S WHY BY SHEILA PARKS Sheila Parks, Ed.D. is the founder of the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots and the author of WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME: The Perils of Electronic Voting Machines and Democracy's Solution: Publicly Observed, Secure Hand-Counted Paper Ballots (HCPB) Elections. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: VOLUME 4, 1984: AN UPDATE ON BABY In On the Issues Vol. II, Merle Hoffman wrote of Baby Jane Doe, an infant born with severe multiple handicaps, whose parents were being hounded unmercifully by the Right-To-Lifers and the Reagan administration because, under the best medical advice, they refused to permit surgery on the infant. STOP MURDER AND VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERS BY MELISSA In a study conducted by the Sex Workers Project in New York City in 2003, 80 percent of the 30 street-based sex workers we interviewed reported experiencing violence or threats of violence while working. When sex workers do experience violence, they must weigh their need for protection against the risks of reporting to the police. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1994: IS THE PIANO A Rebecca Shugrue is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston studying the role of women in politics.. Carolyn Gage is a lesbian playright and screenwriter based in ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: WINTER 1996: WHAT IS JUSTICE FOR A Editor-at-Large Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., is the author of eight books, including Women and Madness, Mothers on Trial, and the recently published Patriarchy: Notes of an Expert Witness.. Artwork (cover, winter 1995 issue): Anke Feuchtenberger. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1997: RWANDA: JUSTICE DENIED Rwanda: JUSTICE DENIEDby Jan Goodwin. Amid the atrocities endured by Rwandan women, the world's silence may be the worst crime of all. February 1997: The heat, the fear and the sour smell of sweat that they triggered hung heavy in the stale air of the courtroom. Every window had been bricked over because of the security risk. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: WINTER 1997: WAY OFF BASE THE Outside a surplus shop, a wall mural depicts a startled, larger-than-life woman clutching a bath towel against her nude body. Beside her in big, bold letters is the store's name: Surprise Attack. The connection between militarism and sexual violence could not have been articulated more clearly. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1997: TARA AND OTHER LIES MARGARET MITCHELL, author of Gone With the Wind, was a battered wife. She kept her first marriage a secret from the press, because the court records for the divorce contained a harrowing account of her husband's attempted rape of her. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE THE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN'S MAGAZINE The tragedy of Savita Halappanaver who died on Oct. 28, 2012 after being denied an abortion in a hospital in Ireland reminds us that all women suffer from circumstances that cross national boundaries, from social and religious conventions, outmoded ideas and societal norms, united by "just" being female. IN A WORD: THE TRUE HISTORY OF "MISOGYNY" BY CHRISTINE E The tract that precipitated the introduction of "misogyny" to the language was Joseph Swetnam's 1615 attack on women, colorfully titled The Arraignment of Lewde, idle, froward, and unconstant women: Or, the vanitie of them, choose you whether. Swetnam minces no words in his tirade against women. Chapter 1, "Moses describeth a woman thus: 'At OPINION: YOUR VOTE GOT COUNTED. HERE’S WHY BY SHEILA PARKS Sheila Parks, Ed.D. is the founder of the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots and the author of WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME: The Perils of Electronic Voting Machines and Democracy's Solution: Publicly Observed, Secure Hand-Counted Paper Ballots (HCPB) Elections. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: VOLUME 4, 1984: AN UPDATE ON BABY In On the Issues Vol. II, Merle Hoffman wrote of Baby Jane Doe, an infant born with severe multiple handicaps, whose parents were being hounded unmercifully by the Right-To-Lifers and the Reagan administration because, under the best medical advice, they refused to permit surgery on the infant. STOP MURDER AND VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERS BY MELISSA In a study conducted by the Sex Workers Project in New York City in 2003, 80 percent of the 30 street-based sex workers we interviewed reported experiencing violence or threats of violence while working. When sex workers do experience violence, they must weigh their need for protection against the risks of reporting to the police. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1994: IS THE PIANO A Rebecca Shugrue is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston studying the role of women in politics.. Carolyn Gage is a lesbian playright and screenwriter based in ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: WINTER 1996: WHAT IS JUSTICE FOR A Editor-at-Large Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., is the author of eight books, including Women and Madness, Mothers on Trial, and the recently published Patriarchy: Notes of an Expert Witness.. Artwork (cover, winter 1995 issue): Anke Feuchtenberger. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1997: RWANDA: JUSTICE DENIED Rwanda: JUSTICE DENIEDby Jan Goodwin. Amid the atrocities endured by Rwandan women, the world's silence may be the worst crime of all. February 1997: The heat, the fear and the sour smell of sweat that they triggered hung heavy in the stale air of the courtroom. Every window had been bricked over because of the security risk. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: WINTER 1997: WAY OFF BASE THE Outside a surplus shop, a wall mural depicts a startled, larger-than-life woman clutching a bath towel against her nude body. Beside her in big, bold letters is the store's name: Surprise Attack. The connection between militarism and sexual violence could not have been articulated more clearly. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1997: TARA AND OTHER LIES MARGARET MITCHELL, author of Gone With the Wind, was a battered wife. She kept her first marriage a secret from the press, because the court records for the divorce contained a harrowing account of her husband's attempted rape of her. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE THE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN'S MAGAZINE The tragedy of Savita Halappanaver who died on Oct. 28, 2012 after being denied an abortion in a hospital in Ireland reminds us that all women suffer from circumstances that cross national boundaries, from social and religious conventions, outmoded ideas and societal norms, united by "just" being female. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1994: LOUISE BOURGEOIS Louise Bourgeois' Feminist Artby Arlene Raven. The powerful art of Louise Bourgeois falls between categories - when male thinking dominates the category-making. Louise Bourgeois is definitely not history. At 83, she is still hungry, angry, and wildly creative. Bourgeois' current surge of artistic power is atypical for an octogenarian artist. OPINION: YOUR VOTE GOT COUNTED. HERE’S WHY BY SHEILA PARKS Sheila Parks, Ed.D. is the founder of the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots and the author of WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME: The Perils of Electronic Voting Machines and Democracy's Solution: Publicly Observed, Secure Hand-Counted Paper Ballots (HCPB) Elections. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE THE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN'S MAGAZINE Consciousness-raising was birthed as a mass-organizing tool for the liberation of women in 1968 when the country and the world were seething with freedom movements. The women who started the Women’s Liberation Movement, several of whom had experienced the Southern Civil Rights Movement firsthand, were convinced it would take a similar mass movement that went beyond lobbying for legal reforms ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1990: OUT OF THE CLOSET AND Should gay politicians and celebrities be forced to "come out?" GABRIEl ROTELLO: Prior to the Stonewall RebBllion in 1969, homosexuality was rarely mentioned in the press.The characterization of gay sexuality as "the love that dare not speak its name" was one of society's most powerful tools in the suppression of gays and lesbians. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1992: BUILDING THE THIRD WAVE Ironically, it is due to the modest success of feminism that many young women like myself were raised with an illusion of equality. I never really thought much about feminism as I was growing up but, looking back, I believe I've always had feminist inclinations. ME, BABE AND PRYING OPEN THE LESBIAN CLOSETS OF WOMEN by Carolyn Gage. June 28, 2012. As a playwright attempting to reclaim the lesbian lives of historic women athletes like Babe Didrikson Zaharias, I run into a peculiar brand of homophobia. Writing about women athletes is a joy. Women athletes defy expectations and societal norms. They run their own races. They inspire and they revolutionize. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1996: WHY ANNIE GOT HER GUN Why Annie Got Her Gunby Carolyn Gage. ANNIE OAKLEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR FEMINISTS. The world's champion sharpshooter, she stalwartly refused to align herself with any of the women's reform movements of her day, including suffrage. Who should have understood better the need for the bloomer costume than the woman who made acareer of
ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1997: CASTING STONES: THE During the 1996 national U.S. elections, the news media had some ironic fun at Dick Morris' expense, commenting that the Presidential advisor and architect of family values got caught with them around his ankles. If we think his relationship with a prostitute violates patriarchal family values, however, we would be wrong for much ofChristian history.
ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE THE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN'S MAGAZINE Unfortunately, the George W. Bush administration answered that question by trying to squeeze the life out of women's equality in a thousand shreddings and shroudings, refusing to enforce existing laws, failing to staff women's policy programs, removing information from public access, selecting judges indifferent or hostile to women'sequal rights.
ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE THE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN'S MAGAZINE The tragedy of Savita Halappanaver who died on Oct. 28, 2012 after being denied an abortion in a hospital in Ireland reminds us that all women suffer from circumstances that cross national boundaries, from social and religious conventions, outmoded ideas and societal norms, united by "just" being female. IN A WORD: THE TRUE HISTORY OF "MISOGYNY" BY CHRISTINE E The tract that precipitated the introduction of "misogyny" to the language was Joseph Swetnam's 1615 attack on women, colorfully titled The Arraignment of Lewde, idle, froward, and unconstant women: Or, the vanitie of them, choose you whether. Swetnam minces no words in his tirade against women. Chapter 1, "Moses describeth a woman thus: 'At OPINION: YOUR VOTE GOT COUNTED. HERE’S WHY BY SHEILA PARKS Sheila Parks, Ed.D. is the founder of the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots and the author of WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME: The Perils of Electronic Voting Machines and Democracy's Solution: Publicly Observed, Secure Hand-Counted Paper Ballots (HCPB) Elections. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: VOLUME 4, 1984: AN UPDATE ON BABY In On the Issues Vol. II, Merle Hoffman wrote of Baby Jane Doe, an infant born with severe multiple handicaps, whose parents were being hounded unmercifully by the Right-To-Lifers and the Reagan administration because, under the best medical advice, they refused to permit surgery on the infant. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1994: LOUISE BOURGEOIS Louise Bourgeois' Feminist Artby Arlene Raven. The powerful art of Louise Bourgeois falls between categories - when male thinking dominates the category-making. Louise Bourgeois is definitely not history. At 83, she is still hungry, angry, and wildly creative. Bourgeois' current surge of artistic power is atypical for an octogenarian artist. STOP MURDER AND VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERS BY MELISSA In a study conducted by the Sex Workers Project in New York City in 2003, 80 percent of the 30 street-based sex workers we interviewed reported experiencing violence or threats of violence while working. When sex workers do experience violence, they must weigh their need for protection against the risks of reporting to the police. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1994: IS THE PIANO A Rebecca Shugrue is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston studying the role of women in politics.. Carolyn Gage is a lesbian playright and screenwriter based in ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: WINTER 1996: WHAT IS JUSTICE FOR A Editor-at-Large Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., is the author of eight books, including Women and Madness, Mothers on Trial, and the recently published Patriarchy: Notes of an Expert Witness.. Artwork (cover, winter 1995 issue): Anke Feuchtenberger. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1997: RWANDA: JUSTICE DENIED Rwanda: JUSTICE DENIEDby Jan Goodwin. Amid the atrocities endured by Rwandan women, the world's silence may be the worst crime of all. February 1997: The heat, the fear and the sour smell of sweat that they triggered hung heavy in the stale air of the courtroom. Every window had been bricked over because of the security risk. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1997: TARA AND OTHER LIES MARGARET MITCHELL, author of Gone With the Wind, was a battered wife. She kept her first marriage a secret from the press, because the court records for the divorce contained a harrowing account of her husband's attempted rape of her. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE THE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN'S MAGAZINE The tragedy of Savita Halappanaver who died on Oct. 28, 2012 after being denied an abortion in a hospital in Ireland reminds us that all women suffer from circumstances that cross national boundaries, from social and religious conventions, outmoded ideas and societal norms, united by "just" being female. IN A WORD: THE TRUE HISTORY OF "MISOGYNY" BY CHRISTINE E The tract that precipitated the introduction of "misogyny" to the language was Joseph Swetnam's 1615 attack on women, colorfully titled The Arraignment of Lewde, idle, froward, and unconstant women: Or, the vanitie of them, choose you whether. Swetnam minces no words in his tirade against women. Chapter 1, "Moses describeth a woman thus: 'At OPINION: YOUR VOTE GOT COUNTED. HERE’S WHY BY SHEILA PARKS Sheila Parks, Ed.D. is the founder of the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots and the author of WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME: The Perils of Electronic Voting Machines and Democracy's Solution: Publicly Observed, Secure Hand-Counted Paper Ballots (HCPB) Elections. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: VOLUME 4, 1984: AN UPDATE ON BABY In On the Issues Vol. II, Merle Hoffman wrote of Baby Jane Doe, an infant born with severe multiple handicaps, whose parents were being hounded unmercifully by the Right-To-Lifers and the Reagan administration because, under the best medical advice, they refused to permit surgery on the infant. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1994: LOUISE BOURGEOIS Louise Bourgeois' Feminist Artby Arlene Raven. The powerful art of Louise Bourgeois falls between categories - when male thinking dominates the category-making. Louise Bourgeois is definitely not history. At 83, she is still hungry, angry, and wildly creative. Bourgeois' current surge of artistic power is atypical for an octogenarian artist. STOP MURDER AND VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERS BY MELISSA In a study conducted by the Sex Workers Project in New York City in 2003, 80 percent of the 30 street-based sex workers we interviewed reported experiencing violence or threats of violence while working. When sex workers do experience violence, they must weigh their need for protection against the risks of reporting to the police. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1994: IS THE PIANO A Rebecca Shugrue is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston studying the role of women in politics.. Carolyn Gage is a lesbian playright and screenwriter based in ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: WINTER 1996: WHAT IS JUSTICE FOR A Editor-at-Large Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., is the author of eight books, including Women and Madness, Mothers on Trial, and the recently published Patriarchy: Notes of an Expert Witness.. Artwork (cover, winter 1995 issue): Anke Feuchtenberger. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1997: RWANDA: JUSTICE DENIED Rwanda: JUSTICE DENIEDby Jan Goodwin. Amid the atrocities endured by Rwandan women, the world's silence may be the worst crime of all. February 1997: The heat, the fear and the sour smell of sweat that they triggered hung heavy in the stale air of the courtroom. Every window had been bricked over because of the security risk. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1997: TARA AND OTHER LIES MARGARET MITCHELL, author of Gone With the Wind, was a battered wife. She kept her first marriage a secret from the press, because the court records for the divorce contained a harrowing account of her husband's attempted rape of her. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE THE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN'S MAGAZINE The tragedy of Savita Halappanaver who died on Oct. 28, 2012 after being denied an abortion in a hospital in Ireland reminds us that all women suffer from circumstances that cross national boundaries, from social and religious conventions, outmoded ideas and societal norms, united by "just" being female. OPINION: YOUR VOTE GOT COUNTED. HERE’S WHY BY SHEILA PARKS Sheila Parks, Ed.D. is the founder of the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots and the author of WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME: The Perils of Electronic Voting Machines and Democracy's Solution: Publicly Observed, Secure Hand-Counted Paper Ballots (HCPB) Elections. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE THE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN'S MAGAZINE Consciousness-raising was birthed as a mass-organizing tool for the liberation of women in 1968 when the country and the world were seething with freedom movements. The women who started the Women’s Liberation Movement, several of whom had experienced the Southern Civil Rights Movement firsthand, were convinced it would take a similar mass movement that went beyond lobbying for legal reforms ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1990: OUT OF THE CLOSET AND Should gay politicians and celebrities be forced to "come out?" GABRIEl ROTELLO: Prior to the Stonewall RebBllion in 1969, homosexuality was rarely mentioned in the press.The characterization of gay sexuality as "the love that dare not speak its name" was one of society's most powerful tools in the suppression of gays and lesbians. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: WINTER 1997: WAY OFF BASE THE Outside a surplus shop, a wall mural depicts a startled, larger-than-life woman clutching a bath towel against her nude body. Beside her in big, bold letters is the store's name: Surprise Attack. The connection between militarism and sexual violence could not have been articulated more clearly. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1992: BUILDING THE THIRD WAVE Ironically, it is due to the modest success of feminism that many young women like myself were raised with an illusion of equality. I never really thought much about feminism as I was growing up but, looking back, I believe I've always had feminist inclinations. ME, BABE AND PRYING OPEN THE LESBIAN CLOSETS OF WOMEN by Carolyn Gage. June 28, 2012. As a playwright attempting to reclaim the lesbian lives of historic women athletes like Babe Didrikson Zaharias, I run into a peculiar brand of homophobia. Writing about women athletes is a joy. Women athletes defy expectations and societal norms. They run their own races. They inspire and they revolutionize. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1996: WHY ANNIE GOT HER GUN Why Annie Got Her Gunby Carolyn Gage. ANNIE OAKLEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR FEMINISTS. The world's champion sharpshooter, she stalwartly refused to align herself with any of the women's reform movements of her day, including suffrage. Who should have understood better the need for the bloomer costume than the woman who made acareer of
ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1994: A SIMPLE HUMAN RIGHT Dorothy Brown, MD, the first black female surgeon in the U.S., was also the first American state legislator to attempt to legalize abortion. As a member of the Tennessee state legislature in 1967, she proposed a bill to that effect and her commitment to reproductive rights remained strong in ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1997: CASTING STONES: THE During the 1996 national U.S. elections, the news media had some ironic fun at Dick Morris' expense, commenting that the Presidential advisor and architect of family values got caught with them around his ankles. If we think his relationship with a prostitute violates patriarchal family values, however, we would be wrong for much ofChristian history.
IN A WORD: THE TRUE HISTORY OF "MISOGYNY" BY CHRISTINE E The tract that precipitated the introduction of "misogyny" to the language was Joseph Swetnam's 1615 attack on women, colorfully titled The Arraignment of Lewde, idle, froward, and unconstant women: Or, the vanitie of them, choose you whether. Swetnam minces no words in his tirade against women. Chapter 1, "Moses describeth a woman thus: 'At STOP MURDER AND VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERS BY MELISSA Melissa Sontag Broudo is a staff attorney with the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center in New York City, where she provides legal advocacy to sex workers and survivors of trafficking on a variety of issues. Prior to joining SWP, Broudo worked with various organizations on issues of poverty, criminalization, gender and sexuality. OPINION: YOUR VOTE GOT COUNTED. HERE’S WHY BY SHEILA PARKS Sheila Parks, Ed.D. is the founder of the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots and the author of WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME: The Perils of Electronic Voting Machines and Democracy's Solution: Publicly Observed, Secure Hand-Counted Paper Ballots (HCPB) Elections. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1994: LOUISE BOURGEOIS Louise Bourgeois' Feminist Artby Arlene Raven. The powerful art of Louise Bourgeois falls between categories - when male thinking dominates the category-making. Louise Bourgeois is definitely not history. At 83, she is still hungry, angry, and wildly creative. Bourgeois' current surge of artistic power is atypical for an octogenarian artist. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1994: IS THE PIANO A Rebecca Shugrue is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston studying the role of women in politics.. Carolyn Gage is a lesbian playright and screenwriter based in ME, BABE AND PRYING OPEN THE LESBIAN CLOSETS OF WOMEN by Carolyn Gage. June 28, 2012. As a playwright attempting to reclaim the lesbian lives of historic women athletes like Babe Didrikson Zaharias, I run into a peculiar brand of homophobia. Writing about women athletes is a joy. Women athletes defy expectations and societal norms. They run their own races. They inspire and they revolutionize. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1990: OUT OF THE CLOSET AND Should gay politicians and celebrities be forced to "come out?" GABRIEl ROTELLO: Prior to the Stonewall RebBllion in 1969, homosexuality was rarely mentioned in the press.The characterization of gay sexuality as "the love that dare not speak its name" was one of society's most powerful tools in the suppression of gays and lesbians. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1997: TARA AND OTHER LIES MARGARET MITCHELL, author of Gone With the Wind, was a battered wife. She kept her first marriage a secret from the press, because the court records for the divorce contained a harrowing account of her husband's attempted rape of her. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1997: CASTING STONES: THESEE MORE ON ONTHEISSUESMAGAZINE.COM ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1994: THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgery (Caesarean section is the most common) performed in the United States today. An American woman is five times more likely than a European to have a hysterectomy before the age of 44. In fact, 35 is the average age for the surgery in the U.S. IN A WORD: THE TRUE HISTORY OF "MISOGYNY" BY CHRISTINE E The tract that precipitated the introduction of "misogyny" to the language was Joseph Swetnam's 1615 attack on women, colorfully titled The Arraignment of Lewde, idle, froward, and unconstant women: Or, the vanitie of them, choose you whether. Swetnam minces no words in his tirade against women. Chapter 1, "Moses describeth a woman thus: 'At STOP MURDER AND VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX WORKERS BY MELISSA Melissa Sontag Broudo is a staff attorney with the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center in New York City, where she provides legal advocacy to sex workers and survivors of trafficking on a variety of issues. Prior to joining SWP, Broudo worked with various organizations on issues of poverty, criminalization, gender and sexuality. OPINION: YOUR VOTE GOT COUNTED. HERE’S WHY BY SHEILA PARKS Sheila Parks, Ed.D. is the founder of the Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots and the author of WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME: The Perils of Electronic Voting Machines and Democracy's Solution: Publicly Observed, Secure Hand-Counted Paper Ballots (HCPB) Elections. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1994: LOUISE BOURGEOIS Louise Bourgeois' Feminist Artby Arlene Raven. The powerful art of Louise Bourgeois falls between categories - when male thinking dominates the category-making. Louise Bourgeois is definitely not history. At 83, she is still hungry, angry, and wildly creative. Bourgeois' current surge of artistic power is atypical for an octogenarian artist. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1994: IS THE PIANO A Rebecca Shugrue is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston studying the role of women in politics.. Carolyn Gage is a lesbian playright and screenwriter based in ME, BABE AND PRYING OPEN THE LESBIAN CLOSETS OF WOMEN by Carolyn Gage. June 28, 2012. As a playwright attempting to reclaim the lesbian lives of historic women athletes like Babe Didrikson Zaharias, I run into a peculiar brand of homophobia. Writing about women athletes is a joy. Women athletes defy expectations and societal norms. They run their own races. They inspire and they revolutionize. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1990: OUT OF THE CLOSET AND Should gay politicians and celebrities be forced to "come out?" GABRIEl ROTELLO: Prior to the Stonewall RebBllion in 1969, homosexuality was rarely mentioned in the press.The characterization of gay sexuality as "the love that dare not speak its name" was one of society's most powerful tools in the suppression of gays and lesbians. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1997: TARA AND OTHER LIES MARGARET MITCHELL, author of Gone With the Wind, was a battered wife. She kept her first marriage a secret from the press, because the court records for the divorce contained a harrowing account of her husband's attempted rape of her. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1997: CASTING STONES: THESEE MORE ON ONTHEISSUESMAGAZINE.COM ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1994: THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgery (Caesarean section is the most common) performed in the United States today. An American woman is five times more likely than a European to have a hysterectomy before the age of 44. In fact, 35 is the average age for the surgery in the U.S. A POEM: PRAISE TO OUR MOTHERS BY GCINA MHLOPHE Praise to Our Mothers. By Gcina Mhlophe. (South Africa, 1989) If the moon were to shine tonight. To light up my face and show off my proud form. With beads around my neck and shells in my hair. And soft easy flowing dress with the colours of Africa. If I were to stand on top of a hill. And raise my voice in praise. THE AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN WHO SHAPED THE FUTURE OF ART BY by Ms. Michael angel Johnson. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, a woman of African descent too often overlooked in arts history, was a precursor to the New Negro Movement of the 1920s also known as the Harlem Renaissance. Born in 1877, her sculpture of the early 20th century boldly used folk and African themes that anticipated this new artisticdirection.
ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1995: TRAGEDY, AMERICAN Then, fearing for the safety of her sons and in an act of vengeful honor and radical insurrection, she slays them with her own hands and escapes with their bodies to safe exile in a chariot drawn by dragons. Queen, goddess, sorceress, and then mother, Medea denies ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: WINTER 1996: WHAT IS JUSTICE FOR A Editor-at-Large Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., is the author of eight books, including Women and Madness, Mothers on Trial, and the recently published Patriarchy: Notes of an Expert Witness.. Artwork (cover, winter 1995 issue): Anke Feuchtenberger. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE THE PROGRESSIVE WOMAN'S MAGAZINE Consciousness-raising was birthed as a mass-organizing tool for the liberation of women in 1968 when the country and the world were seething with freedom movements. The women who started the Women’s Liberation Movement, several of whom had experienced the Southern Civil Rights Movement firsthand, were convinced it would take a similar mass movement that went beyond lobbying for legal reforms ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: FALL 1997: RWANDA: JUSTICE DENIED Rwanda: JUSTICE DENIEDby Jan Goodwin. Amid the atrocities endured by Rwandan women, the world's silence may be the worst crime of all. February 1997: The heat, the fear and the sour smell of sweat that they triggered hung heavy in the stale air of the courtroom. Every window had been bricked over because of the security risk. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1997: TARA AND OTHER LIES MARGARET MITCHELL, author of Gone With the Wind, was a battered wife. She kept her first marriage a secret from the press, because the court records for the divorce contained a harrowing account of her husband's attempted rape of her. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SUMMER 1997: CASTING STONES: THE During the 1996 national U.S. elections, the news media had some ironic fun at Dick Morris' expense, commenting that the Presidential advisor and architect of family values got caught with them around his ankles. If we think his relationship with a prostitute violates patriarchal family values, however, we would be wrong for much ofChristian history.
UNDERSTANDING THE MYTH: WHY CASSANDRA MUST NOT BE SILENCED Rolf posted: 2013-09-24 17:39:16. The power of the myth, will empower us if we can truly listen to the story. As a yoga instructor I have always identified with the Cassandra myth in terms of presenting a non-violent vision of humanity embracing each other, all life, and the environment on our planet, mother earth. ON THE ISSUES MAGAZINE: SPRING 1994: A SIMPLE HUMAN RIGHT Dorothy Brown, MD, the first black female surgeon in the U.S., was also the first American state legislator to attempt to legalize abortion. As a member of the Tennessee state legislature in 1967, she proposed a bill to that effect and her commitment to reproductive rights remained strong in SEARCH ON THE ISSUES:* Home
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_TELLING IT LIKE IT IS_ Radical, committed commentary on critical questions to encourage discussion and action, coming to you monthly or whenever needed. Your comments are welcome. Merle Hoffman being presented 2015 "Bella" award by BALI Founder Liz Abzug I REMEMBER HER HAND... _I WANT TO SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU THE PLEASURE OF BEING THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2015 “BELLA” AWARD GIVEN TO ME EARLIER THIS MONTH BY THE BELLA ABZUG LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (BALI)._ Not only was I honored to be presented this award by Liz Abzug, Bella's daughter and founder of BALI, but to be in the presence of some of the young women who are BALI-trained and mentored here in NYC each year. After a warm introduction by Liz Abzug, I made thefollowing comments:
I AM SO DEEPLY HONORED, not only because of the recognition and reinforcement that this award gives me, but because this award comes from YOU and BALI who come from the inspiration and the lived life of your extraordinary mother, Bella Abzug. HOW FORTUNATE THE YOUNG WOMEN OF BALI ARE, AS WE ALL ARE, TO HAVE BELLA COME BEFORE US. When I grew up in the 1950s there were not many role models of women who achieved greatness, so I became obsessed with Queen Elizabeth the First and Joan of Arc. They are very hard acts to follow. I was very young when I first heard Bella speak against the War in Vietnam. I remember going into a room full of standing, cheering people – and experienced that energy, that passion, that transcendent righteous rage that burned right through you. I always thought of Bella when I found myself speaking to crowds and exhorting and inspiring them to fight against another kind of war, a war that continues today, a multi-national and -generational war against women. A war whose theaters of operations are women's bodiesthemselves.
BECAUSE, MAKE NO MISTAKE, THE STRUGGLE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AND LEGAL ABORTION IS THE FRONT LINE AND THE BOTTOM LINE OF WOMEN'SFREEDOM.
Bella Abzug (foreground left) and Merle Hoffman at abortion rights rally Jan. 22 , NYC, circa 1980s I have been privileged to lead a life on the front lines of this war where I have witnessed and learned to practice courage, patience and humility. My journey has been a difficult, challenging and unique one, and my politics came from the ground up. I was very young and in graduate school for social psychology when I saw my first patient. Abortion had just become legal – and what had been a crime the day before, a sin, an abomination, now was a legally sanctioned medical procedure. The world had turned upside down. She was young, she was white, married with one child, and another would mean financial disaster. Someone said to me, go in there and counsel her. Counsel her? Theories and more theories rushed into my mind. I was terrified, and so was she. There was no such thing then as abortion counseling. But I went into the room and spoke to her, was present with her. I have no memory of what we talked about, perhaps the details of the procedure itself. And then I stayed with her – there was no anesthesia, so I held her hand through her abortion. And it was her hand, that intimate personal connection that wed me to this issue, to this struggle. Now so many years later, so many hands later, the responsibility of that commitment still is with me. I don't remember her name or her face. But I remember her hand, her hand that became the catalyst and inspiration for all my future work. And I remember the moment I became political. It was in 1977. Henry Hyde, the Republican Congressman, had inserted his infamous – and now, it appears, eternal – ban on Medicaid funds being used for abortion. I remember watching him on the television saying, if we can't save all the children, we can save the children of the poor. These were my patients; this was my lived reality. Merle Hoffman, Liz Abzug, and some young BALI leaders THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS LATER – yes, 38 years later – we still have the Hyde Amendment, and much worse, as egregious Orwellian anti-woman laws are passed state by state. We still have millions of women who are ashamed to and afraid to say “I had an abortion.” And we still have many young people who do not realize that freedom is not free – and requires constant vigilance. BALI, we need you – we need young, committed, passionate, righteously angry young women to take up this struggle. To risk, to be bold, to follow the visionaries like Bella who came before you - because if you can't learn to follow, you will never lead. It is 44 years since I saw that first patient – 44 years of struggle, death threats, evictions, harassment – and my patients, the women who through all the years have kept coming, over one million of them, have taught me that. AS MY OLD FRIEND FLO KENNEDY SAID, “YOU'VE GOT TO LEARN TO LOVE THE STRUGGLE.” BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE STRUGGLE FOR GENERATIONS, AND IF YOU LOVE IT AND EMBRACE IT, THAT LOVE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD AND GIVE YOU ALIFE OF MEANING.
READ MORE OF MERLE HOFFMAN'S NEWEST POSTS On The Issues Magazine Winter 2013. ON THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF ROE V. WADE The Love of Strangers - BY MERLE HOFFMAN "Patient #4 in recovery was moved by your work and wants to see you." When my assistant's email came through, I was in the middle of a meeting in my office. Excusing myself, I put on the white coat I always keep hanging on the back of my chair and went up to therecovery room.
In the fourth bed, I met the wide dark eyes of the woman who wanted to see me and introduced myself. She reached out her arms, and as I drew her close to me her words spilled out: "You saved my life. I was 18 weeks--the baby was dead--they should have told me weeks ago. The doc--she didn't want to help. I found you on the Internet--read all about you. Why didn't they tell me earlier? You saved me--thank you, thank you." •ART BY NORMA BESSOUET "She Had a Heartbeat Too" The Tragic Death of Savita Halappanavar in an Irish Hospital - BY ANN ROSSITER A 17-weeks pregnant woman with severe back pain is admitted to a hospital in the west of Ireland. After an examination, she is told that her cervix is fully dilated; her amniotic fluid leaking. Her immature fetus will not survive. This is made clear to her. She is also told that once she miscarries her ordeal will be over and she can return home. But this never happens. A spontaneous abortion does not occur in the four or five hours predicted by the consultant gynecologist. The woman and her husband are informed that because the fetal heartbeat is still present, no intervention is possible. In spite of her repeated requests for an abortion, the woman is refused. Her husband says they were told that abortion "is against the law." He says they were told, "this is a Catholic country." First Irish Abortion Clinic Opens Amid Controversy, Threats and Confusion - BY CAELAINN HOGAN: ON THE ISSUES SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT On October 18, 2012, the first clinic to offer legal medical abortions, albeit within the tight legal restrictions, finally opened in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Marie Stopes International, Belfast's new private clinic, is located on Great Victoria Street, just across from Belfast's main bus station, and a two and a half hour ride from Dublin. It is part of a network of reproductive health clinics that reports serving more than 100,000 men and women throughout Great Britain and also runs more than 600 centers in forty countries. •ART BY JOYCE KOZLOFF AND SUSAN KRAFT Forty Years After Roe V Wade, Getting an Abortion is Still a Major Challenge - BY ELEANOR J. BADER Ramona, 32, mother of a four-year-old daughter, is dropped off at the Summit Women's Center in Bridgeport Connecticut at 8 a.m. on a frigid December Saturday. As she gets out of the car to walk the thirty feet to the clinic, she notices a dozen people holding weathered pictures of mangled babies bearing the words "abortion kills." The protesters can't trespass on clinic property or enter the fenced-in parking lot, but plastic bullhorns amplify their voices. "The Lord loves you," they shout. "He has a purpose for every life. You don't need to go in there and murder your child." •ART BY NORMABESSOUET
It's Up to Us to Defend Abortion Rights - BY MARY LOU GREENBERG The action starts at 7 a.m. every Saturday when volunteers start arriving, women and men, some who get up at 5 a.m. and travel far on the subway to be there, donning white lab coats and positioning themselves on the sidewalk. They come to help escort women patients through the gauntlet of physical and mental harassment outside into Choices Women's Medical Center, so they can get the abortions, birth control, or pre-natal or routine gynecological exams that Choices offers to about 40,000 patients a year. •ART BY GEORGANNE ALDRICH HELLER AND SUSAN KRAFT The Art Perspective: Transition Art I’m caught in an artistic state of transition. I didn’t plan it. It came slowly, over a period of 6-8 months, maybe more. I wasn’t aware of it happening. It took me by surprise. Now, it’s become clearer to me: I have, indeed, been in a gestating/incubating phase.
Let me try to remember its beginning, to articulate its progress, torecount my process.
•ART BY LINDA STEIN Poetry....... Back and Forth - BYJUDITH ARCANA
Judith Arcana is a Jane, a member of Chicago's pre-Roe underground abortion service. She's written a lot of poems and stories about abortion and reproductive justice. Her most recent book is The Parachute Jump Effect; two new stories are in the fall 2012 issue of SERVING HOUSE JOURNAL online. •ART BY ANDREA ARROYO The Poet's Eye: Curated by Judith Arcana Featuring poetry by Rosellen Brown, Patricia Smith, M, and Susan Eisenberg. These poems were curated by Judith Arcana, outgoing co-poetry editor of On the Issues. Her wisdom and perception over the years shall be missed. •ART BY ANDREA ARROYO Suggested Reading - BY ANNA PLATT AND THEFEMINIST PRESS
Reviews of COMPLAINTS AND DISORDERS (SECOND EDITION) by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, DISPATCHES FROM THE ABORTION WARS: THE COSTS OF FANATICISM TO DOCTORS, PATIENTS, AND THE REST OF US by Carole Joffe, GENERATION ROE: INSIDE THE FUTURE OF THE PRO-CHOICE MOVEMENT by Sarah Erdreich, THE 'ABORTION TRAIL' AND THE MAKING OF A LONDON-IRISH UNDERGROUND, 1980-2000 by Ann Rossiter, DELIRIUM: THE POLITICS OF SEX IN AMERICA by Nancy L. Cohen, and THE WICHITA DIVIDE: THE MURDER OF DR. GEORGE TILLER AND THE BATTLE OVER ABORTION by Stephen Singular. ROE THROUGH THE YEARS AT OTI Rosa Parks and Alice Paul put their bodies on the line, saying, “This much injustice and no more.” So did all of the providers of abortion services who risked their lives and freedom before abortion was legal, and those who continue to risk their lives by just doing their work on a daily basis. Perhaps Martin Luther expressed this perspective best after he nailed his 95 Theses on the doors at Wittenberg in 1517: “Here I stand; Ican do no other.”
That act was an inspiration 20 years ago when I led the first pro-choice civil disobedience at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on April 29, 1989. Pro-choice activists were arrested for the first time in the movement’s history. We declared that “women’s rights are in a state of emergency,” and we held our petition at thecathedral door.
READ FULL STORY AND THE PROCLAMATION FROM OUR FILES: RELATED ARTICLES, JANUARY 2013Winter 1990
The tragedy of Savita Halappanaver who died on Oct. 28, 2012 after being denied an abortion in a hospital in Ireland reminds us that all women suffer from circumstances that cross national boundaries, from social and religious conventions, outmoded ideas and societal norms, united by "just" being female. From its 1983 inception as a newsletter of Choices Women's Medical Center, founded by Merle Hoffman, through the 16 years it grew into a nationally acclaimed print magazine, and into the nearly-five years of its rebirth as a quarterly online publication, On the Issues Magazine has covered and analyzed the struggle for and around abortion and how reproductive freedom is essential to women's lives.'READ FULL STORY
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The Love of Strangers by Merle Hoffman "She Had a Heartbeat Too" The Tragic Death of Savita Halappanavar in an Irish Hospital by Ann Rossiter First Irish Abortion Clinic Opens Amid Controversy, Threats and Confusion by Caelainn Hogan Forty Years After Roe V Wade, Getting an Abortion is Still a Major Challenge by Eleanor J. Bader It's Up to Us to Defend Abortion Rights by Mary Lou Greenberg Back and Forth by Judith Arcana The Poet's Eye: Curated by Judith Arcana Suggested Reading by Anna Platt and the Feminist Press Related Articles, January 2013Winter 2013 Index
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